Hi!

My first post on this forum site.

My problem is as follows, and ofcourse it's on an XP system:

I suddenly get my apps to show up as truncated to 8.3 format in Task Manager and my firewall also suddenly starts requesting access for apps (in 8.3 name format) that have already been allowed and are in a list of allowed apps, but in long name format. What has happened for this to occure? I have tried one thing, dissabling 8.3 format in registry but does not help. I can't recall having done anything to my sys. BUT, I DID recieve a backdoor virus yesterday (Backdoor.Optix.Pro.12) and that one started a service and added (as always) an executable in RUN key in registry. I did delete both file and registry key b4 ever rebooting.

Any sugestions at all to what to do/try?